MPP 2017: 6th Workshop on Parallel Programming Models - Special Edition on Fog and In-Situ Computing Expo Dom Pedro (Av. Guilherme Campos, 500 - Jardim Santa Genebra, Campinas - SP, 13087-901) Campinas, Brazil, October 17-20, 2017 |
Conference website | http://mpp2017.ime.uerj.br |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mpp2017 |
Submission deadline | September 10, 2017 |
Author notification | September 20, 2017 |
Author registration | September 25, 2017 |
Camera ready | September 29, 2017 |
Writing parallel applications is an arduous and non-trivial task, but also mandatory if one wants to explore the potential of modern multicore processors. This task becomes even harder as different computation devices, such as General Purpose Graphic Processing Units (GPGPUs) and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), are employed to build heterogeneous systems. This imposes new challenges to the scientific community: the creation of models and alternatives to ease parallelism exploitation by the average programmer, considering the peculiarities of the different computation devices.
Another important aspect to consider, specially in applications that run on big systems and manipulate big datasets, is the tradeoff between moving data to a remote processing element to increase parallelism and computing things locally to reduce communication costs. Fog and in-situ computing intend to tackle this issue by adding computing capabilities to network devices (such as NICs, switches and routers), storage devices or even memory. Those "smart" devices would be able to perform part of the computation that would reduce data transmission over the network and data busses. This makes computing systems even more heterogeneous, intensifying the need of novel programming models.
MPP aims at bringing together researchers interested in presenting contributions to the evolution of existing models or in proposing novel ones, considering the trends on accelerator devices and fog/in-situ computing. MPP 2017 will be held in conjunction with the 29th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2017), at Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
Submission Guidelines
MPP invites authors to submit unpublished full papers on the subject. Submissions must be in English, 6 pages maximum, following the IEEE formatting guidelines. The 6-page limit includes references. Submission must be done electronically and following deadlines informed.
List of Topics
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Data-Flow execution models and languages for parallelism exploitation;
- Languages, compilers and parallelism extraction tools
- Heterogeneous programming models
- Synchronization Mechanisms, such as Transactional Memories
- Load-balancing for multithreading
- Scheduling and Placement Algorithms for Parallel Programming models
- Novel Parallel Programming Techniques
- Novel Parallel Architectures
- Error Detection/Recovery for Parallel Programming Models
- Theoretical Analysis of Parallelism.
- Smart storage and in-situ computing
- Fog computing
Committees
Program Co-chairs
- Leandro A. J. Marzulo - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil
- Felipe M. G. França - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil
- Cristiana Bentes - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil
- Vladimir Alves - NGD Systems, USA
Program Committee
- Alexandre da Costa Sena - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil
- Alexandre Solon Nery - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil
- Aline de Paula Nascimento - Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brazil
- Andrew Putnam - Microsoft, USA
- Carla Osthoff - Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica (LNCC), Brazil
- Cristina Boeres - Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brazil
- Diego Dutra - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil
- Edson Borin - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
- Elias Mizan - Synaptics, USA
- Emilio Francesquini - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
- Eugene Vinod - Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brazil
- Francisco Sant'Anna - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil
- Gabriele Mencagli - University of Pisa, Italy
- Gabriel Paillard - Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Brazil
- Guido Araújo - UNICAMP, Brazil
- Hung Wei Tseng – North Carolina State University, USA
- Igor Machado Coelho - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil
- Inês Dutra - Universidade do Porto, Portugal
- Lúcia Drummond - Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brazil
- Marcelo Zamith - Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), Brazil
- Maria Clicia Stelling de Castro - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil
- Maurício Pilla - Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPEL), Brazil
- Michael Frank - LG Electronics, USA
- Nader Bagherzadeh - University of California Irvine, USA
- Rafael Burlamaqui Amaral, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica do Rio de Janeiro (CEFET-RJ), Brazil
- Rafaelli Coutinho, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica do Rio de Janeiro (CEFET-RJ), Brazil
- Rekai Gonzalez Alberquilla - ARM, UK
- Ricardo Farias - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil
- Sandip Kundu - University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
- Tiago A. O. Alves – Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil
- Ubiratam de Paula - Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), Brazil
- Walid Najjar - University of California Riverside, USA
- Zehra Sura - IBM, USA
Publication
The proceedings of MPP will be submitted to IEEE Xplore and Computer Society Digital Library.
Selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their work to a journal Special Issue. MPP chairs are in touch with “International Journal of Parallel Programming” (IJPP) and “Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience” (SCPE) and will soon announce the special issue publication venue.
Venue
The conference will be held at Expo Dom Pedro (Av. Guilherme Campos, 500 - Jardim Santa Genebra, Campinas - SP, 13087-901). The conference venue is co-located with Parque Dom Pedro, one of the largest shopping centers in South America, featuring multiple dining, shopping, and entertainment options.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Leandro Marzulo (leandro.marzulo@gmail.com or leandro@ime.uerj.br)